The 31-year-old video coach has suited up twice for the Washington Capitals on an emergency basis. His NHL debut occurred on December 12, 2008, when the Capitals hosted the Ottawa Senators. With Jose Theodore gone down that morning with a hip flexor injury and Semyon Varlamov unable to make it to the arena from Hershey in time, Leonhardt — the team’s website producer at the time — suited up and went out with the team for warm-ups. He sat on the bench until Varly arrived 9:03 into the first period.

Leonhardt, who was a NCAA Division III goalie with the State University of New York at Oswego and Neumann College, joins fellow Capitals’ rookies Tom Wilson, Connor Carrick, and Michael Latta in the Young Guns set.

“Words can’t describe the surprise I was given when one of our players along with head coach Adam Oates presented to me the Upper Deck Young Guns blow-up cards before our team meeting with my image on them,” Leonhardt said.

“As an avid card collector my entire life, this was truly a dream come true,” he continued. “My father, brother, and I attended many card-collecting expos and spent countless hours through our youth collecting hockey cards and completing sets. You really created a highlight in my life by putting this together, and I don’t know how to thank you enough!”